One guy stood up for balancing the budget and was hammered. The other republicans fold to fund their projects.

Trump tax cuts by conservative tax foundations assements leave 10 trillion in revanue from a neutral budget growth over ten years. Every tax cut
since 1964 has failed because it gambles everything on a perfect scenario.

No tax cuts until a balanced bus get period or its a gimmick.

The wall. An expensive gimmick. Why not say day one employers I am coming for you. 10 years in jail for any company executives found negligent in
backround checks. That's cheap relatively speaking.

Trade wars...uh Walmart becomes pottery barn prices.

These are transitions that go beyond a president and into congress. Donald Trump waving his hands around for four years could be a disaster.

Could it be good. Maybe. I have a little hope but every time a cabinet pick comes out I loose faith.

sigh.... I wish I were as optimistic as you. The following is from 2012, but I suspect that the GOP finally figured out they had an easy mark. Rubio
said Trump had small hands, but I think that the GOP finally realized that Trump would still be able to use those small hands to take up a pen and
sign their bigly legislation. They then would applaud and say, "Good Boy!" and give him another star.

Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States. This is a change for Republicans: the House
and Senate doing the work with the president signing bills. His job is to be captain of the team, to sign the legislation that has already been
prepared."

I'll never understand why the average person (who voted for the losing team) seems to want America to fail. Treat all candidates equally, I mean, you
don't have a favorite child do you?? Praise their achievements, hold them accountable for their failures. To try and predict how the US is going to
fail because your candidate didn't win, seems very petty and small.

Just my two cents.

If Trump had nothing to do with this plant not going South, the company would be the first one to say it. Wouldn't that be good publicity? If he had
even a small part in it staying, doesn't that show he is at least trying?

I'm PRETTY sure that the point that Sillolme is making that you guys are steadfastly refusing to see is that even with that being true it has and had
nothing to do with Donald J. Trump, but he took credit for it anyways.

originally posted by: Sillyolme
Trump has tweeted...
"Just got a call from my friend Bill Ford, chairman of Ford, who advised me that he will be keeping the Lincn plant in Kentucky...no Mexico..."
Sounds great. He's working already not even in the office yet and he's already bringing back jobs.
He confirmed that by tweeting...
"I worked hard with Bill Ford to keep the plant in Kentucky. I owed it to the great people of Kentucky for their confidence in me."
So magnanimous.
But ut oh.... Turns out there never were plans to send Lincoln to Mexico.
Not at all.

He is lyng again. And self aggrandizing . Taking credit for something he didn't do. www.npr.org...

Ford builds the Lincoln MKC small SUV at its Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky alongside the Ford Escape SUV. Ford had never said it was
considering shifting MKC production south of the border. But the company confirmed Friday that it had been “likely” to move the work to Mexico in
2019 when its current contract with the United Auto Workers union expires.

They were “likely” to move the work to Mexico in 2019 when its current contract with the United Auto Workers union expires.
It seems you were a bit selective in what parts of the story you chose to share. And yes I know it's a different source...

Anybody with a clue about economics knows trump is a disaster. Revanue cuts mixed with increased spending.

Threatening to cut green energy subsidies but leave the 43 billion in oil and gas subsidies.

Throw in steeper trade tariffs to increase cost for the consumers. Brilliant ideas.

Oh and then 2 out of the three major players being given power in cabinet positions have a history of racially charged remarks...

This should go well. Sounds like the swamp is being filled with trash.

So we should've just voted Hillary in then to solve our disaster of an economy?

What was Hillary or any other candidate going to change to bring our economy out of the garbage can?

I think its funny every damn liberal on this site thinks of themselves as the next God of economics. Trump runs an international business and has
been manipulating politicians for many years. What have you done with your life for me to believe you over him?

“We had planned to move the Lincoln MKC out of Louisville Assembly Plant", a Ford spokeswoman, said in an e-mail

Oh, so Trump was telling the truth and haters tried to paint him as a liar. Haters credibility is getting so far in the gutter its going to be hard to
click on these threads after this "crying wolf" OP.

Do you really not read at all? Nobody said the plant was closing or leaving. The management did say that they were planning to move a production
line to Mexico. Now, with Trump's election, they say they are not moving the production to Mexico---thus saving jobs in Kentucky. Now the folks
who were nervous about losing their jobs can relax and get on with their lives. That may not mean much to you but to them it means a great deal. You
can type that their jobs weren't in jeopardy all you like, but that's because it wasn't YOUR job hanging.
It is perfectly true that Trump didn't DO anything to cause this change in plans because it's not him running the plant or the country but it is
perfectly clear that the leadership of the company is more optimistic about their chances of being able to run their company in a profitable manner
under his administration of the country. If you don't understand that, I don't know what to say. He got elected and even before he takes office,
there are positive signs in the economy.
I'm not a Trumpster, didn't vote for the man but I'm perfectly willing to give him the same benefit of the doubt that I gave Obama eight years ago. I
hope for better things.

You can continue to drone on and on about what an evil, despicable person he is and continue to be miserable because your choice didn't win. Or you
can give the guy a chance by waiting to see what he actually does once he takes office before you go spewing your venom rather than playing "Keep 'em
divided" game that the Clintons promote. Sore loser are such a bore.

Moving production of a line out of a plant does not make a plant close down and move.

The Kentucky plant was not going to close down. The plant will continue to make Ford Escapes, 91% of their production.

ETA Trump has no basic understanding of the American auto industry.

Which still leaves the Trump statement accurate under a broad
interpretation. So, the OP is insignificant. If you are going to accuse someone of a lie you have to give benefit of doubt, which means generously
interpreting statements. The saving of one production line could be stated as "saving the plant" in the same way you can save someone even if there
were not going to actually die entirely. This is a waste of our time to even talk about. It wasn't a lie under common interpretations of the word
"save".

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